Thank you so much, Kevin, for caring about what's happening in the larger world, while so many of your age-mates are too self-absorbed even to think about anything that doesn't immediately affect them personally.

Also, in Igbo tradition the age-mates or age-set of a freshly deceased peer scour their village, rushing hither and thither, searching for their missing comrade everywhere he once would be sure to have been found, the search increasingly intense and frantic as the age-mates run disappointed, back and forth from one familiar, intimate place to another, and their entreaties, their lamentations fail to coax the missing one from hiding.